When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

We are about 50-50 here with physical and virtual servers. In another year or two it will all be virtualized. My current project is to virtualize the file servers. Installing a DPM agent inside the ...

We've looked at quite a bit so far -- scalability improvements, NUMA, VM monitoring and replication, to name a few -- in the first six parts of this series. Let's turn our attention to a hot topic and ...

A look at what's new in general and specifically for virtualization and containers in the next LTSC release, Windows Server 2019, due out in the second half of 2018. In case you haven't kept up with ...

Here are some inital thoughts at the first test build of the upgraded Microsoft hypervisor server shows improved migration, upgraded Hyper-V Manager and new VM versions. Microsoft last month delayed ...

If you want to convert a physical server to a Hyper-V VM, follow the steps mentioned in this guide. Do keep in mind that this physical server doesn’t have to be a server; it can be any computer, be it ...

In an effort to leverage good ol’ Windows passthrough authentication, I created an account on my Vista machine and another account with identical credentials on my Server machine… then I fired up ...

VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

Possibilities are innumerable when multiple server environments can be deployed without the need for additional hardware and can be centrally maintained. The Test Center found one entertaining way to ...